@adiwan
Germany
http://adiwan.deviantart.comMaking some pony art.
Computer science student.
Retro gamer.
Linux user.
Loves epic soundtracks.
Just a typical Geek/Nerd who loves new things.
Mod of http://askthevetpony.tumblr.com
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adiwan (adiwan)
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@zeldatra Yeah. They listened to all the critics that were complaining about all the reading and didn't think that animating all the scenes is eXpEnSiVe. Still 1000 times better than the fully voice-acted Oblivion or Skyrim. For what they did it was an adequate job using canned animation clips. Y6 was probably the only game in the series where I haven't mashed though the dialogue because of the voice acting. I tend not to skip voiced dialogue (even when I don't understand Japanese). Written dialogue is quicker do digest and thus mashable when nothing really happens.
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@zeldatra Him being at EA before that goes great with that... I read that that amount of stocks was only a very small percentage of his stock holdings. Still looks scummy.
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@scribus Unity is in the red for years and buying Weta wasn't cheap so they were grasping for the most stupid decision to gain (repeatable) revenue by choosing to get paid by the amount of installs of the games. The problem is that indie game developers have very little profit and it can cost more in the long run than it gained profit. Also the way to determine the amount of installs is not clear. The last information I heard was that Unity wanted to use a heuristic to guess the amount of installs. Also Unity did that decision out of nowhere and tried to cover their tracks by sneakily removing paragraphs in their license that would hinder that license change. Unity had image problems (being used for asset-flip games, taking a lot of time for updates and being behind on the technical side) before but that was a huge kick in the balls to devs and all people who bought games made with Unity.
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@scribus Haha. Nah. I think they are there to reduce the eye sore of the out of place looking buildings.
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@scribus In my city there are some but you have really look for them, as most of them are hidden. I used google maps today to look up where they are and I'm surprised that there are more than I thought. Even a place I regularly drove by had one and I didn't know until now. There are no big signs or like that. Most of them are near parks and they are hidden behind bushes.
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@scribus I want the ivy to be exterminated. I don't allow it to have a second chance on my land. The main stem at one spot was as thick as my ring finger.
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Gardening will be a pain. Everything is mostly overgrown with ivy. There was even a cut dead tree fully overgrown by that stuff. The tree was so decayed it was basically at the strength of cardboard. The ivy gave it the most structural integrity.
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@scribus Yeah. Preserving jars are almost the same in that regard. It's cheaper to just buy stuff that's sold in a preserving jar than to buy them empty. A family member has some apple trees and the preserving jars I collected were used to preserve apple sauce made from these apples.
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@scribus I watched it on Netflix. I don't really give an recommendation to watch it but it's something to waste time on, best for doing something on the side "watching" it.
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"Ghostbusters: Afterlife" what a bad movie. For the most part it's "fine". Very slow pacing but "fine". The last act was the kick into the groin.
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I have the keys to the house. If it weren't for the heat, I'd be moving my stuff to the house. 31°C and no clouds. Unbearable.
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@scribus I think the creators had a lot of internal conflict on how to create an epic and make the episodes episodic, like Futurama and Simpsons. I fully agree with you. I really liked the characters, some more, some less, but none were truly terrible (even Elfo to some degree). It's just that the plot made all of them brainless and stupid stretching all of the characters to an unrecognizable form. Fast-forwarding a lot of the plot didn't help. In this season, multiple times, there was no reason to stop a chase but it happened despite no reason at all.
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The last season of Disenchantment is quite a mess in how the story was told.
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@barcom That tax is a one time only thing. But I have to pay further taxes in the future for that plot of land and they are far lower.
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Ah F***!!!! Got a bill from the government for the tax for buying land. 11k€ down the drain. I knew I had to pay it before I got into thinking about buying a house. It still stings nonetheless. That's about 2800 comic issues!
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@scribus Thanks. The bill was 65€ for that. I will certainly suffer for pleasure of owning a home, especially since there was nothing done for over 40 years and has still wallpaper from the late 70s. What has to be done: New switch box (solar power ready), new electric cables, new windows, roof isolation, the wilderness of a garden needs to be tamed. Also when I'm at it I'll lay down network cables everywhere, at least CAT7 and glass fiber.
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In a week I'll own a house! I'd be happier if the city wouldn't penny-pinch me. I had to pay a bill for something that the city should pay themselves: an investigation if the city has an interest in buying the house (first refusal right).
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Ugh... I hate it when I'm scolded for being "too direct". I'm beyond doing the dance of pleasantries and politeness. I got an email and responded with the least amount of words AND added the most relevant information to the information request. I said that I haven't worked with Java in a long time and have no experience with Spring Boot, as well as absolutely none with Javascript and Typescript, and a correction in a shared document in that mail.
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Riverdale is finally over. It was always a guilty pleasure show to me. It was so bad I couldn't look away. The performances were fine, as well as the props, the cinematography, and the actors. The story and direction were INSANE. It started as a murder mystery, then a forbidden student teacher relationship, then a serial murderer, then drugs and biker gangs, pen&paper RPG leading to the satanic panic, insane drug cooking nuns,... to vigilantism, and in the last seasons magic, an biblical apocalypse, time travel, super powers, and then finally a universe reset transporting the main cast to the 60s with a mind wipe from an angel and then in the end giving those memories back. Do I recommend it? Heck no. Was it a good watch? Not really. Was it an experience? YEAH.
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@zeldatra I also think 5 is the most varied in style and tone and side-stuff. I really enjoyed the taxi missions and wished there were more of them.
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In my Youtube recommendations a Babylon 5 video was recommended to me and I misread its title in a hilarious way. The title contained the word "Minbari", which is the name of a race in the Babylon 5 universe, and I misread it as "Minibar".
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@scribus You made me hesitate with your remark, however as I look up images of giraffes being born, they usually have spots.
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Achievement unlocked: I broke my bicycle chain by pedaling too hard. To be fair: the chain had tons of wear after 1500km-1800km and already at its end of life. The chain was jumping out of the sprockets a few times. A replacement chain is already in my possession and new ones are already ordered.
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I'm not really a big karaoke fan in the Yakuza games but I somewhat miss it in Judgment.
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"Chip 'n Dale: Park Life" season 2 is bonkers insane.
about a month ago from web
